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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

