The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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