The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...

