The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
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