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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...

