Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didnโt take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butlerโs interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

