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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

