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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
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