As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Twin Cities Area
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
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