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

