Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Twin Cities Area
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
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...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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...
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