James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
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 Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

