St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

