The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
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
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City