The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
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