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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

