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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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