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 Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown