The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
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...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 John Beargrease?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

