The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
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...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
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
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

