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...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

