The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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