Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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