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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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