The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

