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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

