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
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

