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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
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
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
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...

