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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...

