The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

