The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

