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 and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

