The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
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...
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...

