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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

