The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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