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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

