The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

