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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

