The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Twin Cities Area
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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