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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

