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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

