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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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