The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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