The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
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