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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

