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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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