When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Twin Cities Area
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

