The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

