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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown