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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
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...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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