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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

