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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

