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
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

