The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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