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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

