The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

