The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

