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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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