The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...

