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
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

