Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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