The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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