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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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 Lindstrรถm
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
โOnce upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
Itโs clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

