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
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint 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...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

