The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

