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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

