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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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