The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Twin Cities Area
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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