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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
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...

