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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

