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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

