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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

