Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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