The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

