The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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