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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
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...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

