The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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