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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

