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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

