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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

