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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

