The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...

