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
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butlerโs interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
Itโs clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

