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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

