Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

