The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery is located at the foot of a bluff on the banks of the Root River. Brewing...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

