The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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