The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

