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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

