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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

