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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
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...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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