The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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