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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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