The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown