The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston