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
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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