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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

