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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
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...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

