The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
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...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

