Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Twin Cities Area
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

