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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

