The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

