The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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