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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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
Old Brewery In Preston