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Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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