The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

