The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

