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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...

