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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

