The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor 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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul