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

