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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

