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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown