St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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