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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

