As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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