The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

