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

