The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

