At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordwayโknown by her nickname, Sallyโwas born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

