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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
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...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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