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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

