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...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

