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...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

