Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Twin Cities Area
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...

