Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Twin Cities Area
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

