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...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

