The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

