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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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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