St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Twin Cities Area
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didnโt know where I was. I certainly didnโt...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

