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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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