The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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