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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

