The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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 Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

