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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

