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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

