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...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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