The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

