The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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