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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

