The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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
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