The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Twin Cities Area
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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