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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

