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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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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...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
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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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown