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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
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