The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

