The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

