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...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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