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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

