James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

