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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

