The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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