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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
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...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
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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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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