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...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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