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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

