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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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