The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

