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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston