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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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