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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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