The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

