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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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