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