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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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