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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

