The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown