The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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