Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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