St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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