The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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 Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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