If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Twin Cities Area
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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