In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Twin Cities Area
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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