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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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