The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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