Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
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...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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