The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

