The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown