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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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