St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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