The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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