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...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

