Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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