George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Twin Cities Area
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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