The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

