The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...

