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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

