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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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