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

