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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

