The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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