The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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