The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

