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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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...

