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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
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...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

