The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown