Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Twin Cities Area
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. 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...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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