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...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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