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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

