Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Twin Cities Area
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little 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...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul