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