The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

