Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
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...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
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...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

