James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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