The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
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...

