The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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