When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

