The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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