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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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