The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

