The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

