The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

