On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Twin Cities Area
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

