The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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