The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

