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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

