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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
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
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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