The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Twin Cities Area
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
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...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown