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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown