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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

