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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City