Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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