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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

