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