The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
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...
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...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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