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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

