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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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...

