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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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
Old Brewery In Preston