The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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