The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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