The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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