At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Twin Cities Area
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

