Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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