Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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