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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...

