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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

