The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

