The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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