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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

