The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
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...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

