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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

