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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

