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

