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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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