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
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

