The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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