The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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