The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Twin Cities Area
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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