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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

