The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown