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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
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
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

