The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

