The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
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
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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