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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City