The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

