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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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