The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Twin Cities Area
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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...
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