It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Twin Cities Area
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown