The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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