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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

