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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

