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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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