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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

