The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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