The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

