The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul