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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown