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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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