The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
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
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

