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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

