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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown