At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
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...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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