At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston