The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

