The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

