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...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

