The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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