Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Twin Cities Area
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

