The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

