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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

