The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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