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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

