The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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