The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

