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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

