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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
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...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City