The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

