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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

