The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
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...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

