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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

