The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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