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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

