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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

