The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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