Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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