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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

