Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Twin Cities Area
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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