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...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston