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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Le Sueur Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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