James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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...

