The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown