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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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