The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown