Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Twin Cities Area
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

