Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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