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