Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston