The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

