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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

