The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

