The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown