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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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