The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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