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...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

