As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown