In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Twin Cities Area
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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