On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Twin Cities Area
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

