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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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