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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

