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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

