Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Twin Cities Area
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City