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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

