The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

