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...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

