The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

