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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

