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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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