The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
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...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

