The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
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...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

