The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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