Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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