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