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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

