On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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