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...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

