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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

