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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

