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...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

