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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City