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...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
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
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston