The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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