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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

