The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

