The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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