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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

