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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Franconia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...

