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...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

