The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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