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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

