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...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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