The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
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...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

