The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
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
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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