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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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