The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

