The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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