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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital 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