The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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