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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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