The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston