The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
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