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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s 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...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

