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...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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