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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

