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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

