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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

