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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

