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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

