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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

