The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
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
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In 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