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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
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...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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