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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

