The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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