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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

