The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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