The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you ๐ The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

