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...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

