The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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