The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

