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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

