The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

