George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Twin Cities Area
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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