The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
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 Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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