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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

