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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia 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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
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...

