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...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

