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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

