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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

