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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
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