As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

