As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

