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