Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Twin Cities Area
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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