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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

