The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Twin Cities Area
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

