The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

