James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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