Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Twin Cities Area
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

