The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

