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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
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