The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

