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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

