The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

