As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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