Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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...
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
Old Brewery In Preston