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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

