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...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

