The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown