The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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