The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
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...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

