The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill 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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

