Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

