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...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main 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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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