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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
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...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
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
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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