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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

