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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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