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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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