The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Twin Cities Area
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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