Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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