The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

