The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

