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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
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...
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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