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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

