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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldnโt consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...

