Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Twin Cities Area
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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