In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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