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
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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