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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City