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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

