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
The Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

