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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

