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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

