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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

