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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...

