The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

