The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

