The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

