The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

