Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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