The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

