The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...

