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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown