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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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