The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

