James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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...

