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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

