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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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