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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
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
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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