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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

