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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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