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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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