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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

