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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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