The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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