The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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