The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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