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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township 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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown