The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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