The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

