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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

