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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
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...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

