The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

