The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

