George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Twin Cities Area
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul