The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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