The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
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...

