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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Laura Baker?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

