The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

