The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

