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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

