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