The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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