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...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

