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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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