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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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