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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

