The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

