The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston