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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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 Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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