The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Twin Cities Area
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

