At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston