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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...

