The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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