The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

