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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

