The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Twin Cities Area
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
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...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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