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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
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