The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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