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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
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 Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

