The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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