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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
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