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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
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