The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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