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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

