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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

