The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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