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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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