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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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