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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown