The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
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...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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