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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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