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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

