The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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