The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesotaโs most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac 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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

