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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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