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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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