The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

