The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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