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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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