James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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