The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

