The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown