The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
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
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

