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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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